Adam Buckley - Drag Me Down

[mikej]

Nice mix! I really like the emphasis on the bass and your use of the delay effects on the vocals! really makes the song groove an extra touch. Great kick and snare tone too. I think your mix in general is slightly loud around 300hz and around 2.2k. Its sounds like possibly the instruments are slightly too closely mixed in these areas. I pushed those frequencies down on your mix with an EQ about 3db and it immediately makes your mix sound bigger. Something to note. Anyways, good mix to listen too

Hi!

Thanks for checking it out!

I tried some Ampeg bass amp sim I picked up as freebie some time back, and also another distortion type plugin on those other bass channels. Maybe why I have the bass is bit loud in the mix. The vocal delays are kind of as per the ref mix really.  I only added the delays when I realised I had missed them out - so can't really take credit for that idea sadly.

Not sure about the 300hz area yet, but thanks - yeah - I do agree with you about the 2.2k area. I thought it was ok when I did some referencing the other day, but referencing against the same tracks today I think you are right that it is a bit too edgy.  I think a lot of it might be coming from the vocal and maybe the distorted guitar.  I'll have to go back and try tweaking it a bit.  I was trying out a few different ideas and things. It also turned out a bit loud too. 

I don't think I did anything much to the kicks - just a big dip at around 500Hz or so and an 1176 style comp.  Snare was a little eq, 1176, a bit of SPL mo-verb and a bit of distortion. I think I only added reverb to the rooms this time.

I'll be sure to check out your mix properly in the next couple of days too by way of return.

Cheers!